You can now be Sylvester Stallone's Rambo character in Call of Duty: Warzone.
You can now be Sylvester Stallone's Rambo character in Call of Duty: Warzone.
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Bringing the 1980s action heroes into Call of Duty: Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone got some 1980s action heroes this week with its midseason update. Now you can play as Die Hard‘s John McClane (Bruce Willis) or Rambo (Sylvester Stallone). It’s the latest treat in Activision’s hot battle royale game, which has more than 100 million downloads in the past 14 months.

Since I’m the only one here old enough to remember, I should explain who they are. McClane is a New York cop who arrives at a holiday party-turned-hostage situation. He’s the hero of the Die Hard films, one of the most iconic action movie series of all time. The other is Rambo, a man double-crossed while on a clandestine mission and left to fight on his own in Rambo: First Blood Part II, which continued to inspire action movies since its release in 1985.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.